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NO PILLARS
Exegesis of the Qur’anic verse, {He created the heavens without pillars}, Chapter of Luqman, verse 10. The He of this verse is allah, or the gathering, and the creation established by this gathering is the assembly, which is not a fixed entity, but rather a continuous process of confluence and contention among the multitudes of…
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THE GODFEARING SHALL BE AMIDST GARDENS AND FOUNTAINS
The exegesis of the Qur’anic verse: {But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains}, Surat al-Hijr. Most people think that Paradise is a place distinct from this mundane one, somewhere up in the heavens beyond the reach of satellite eyes and probing rockets. Or maybe it’s on a distant planet sphere, or maybe even…
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THE COMPLETE EXEGESIS
Al-Khattab undertook an exegetical work called Al-Tafsir al-Shamil fi Maarafat al-Kamil, or The Complete Exegesis Toward an Understanding of the Divine Perfection. It began simply enough, aiming for a comprehensive synthesis of the preceding centuries’ scholarship on Qur’anic interpretation. Al-Khattab was well into the third volume and the exegeses on the Chapter of the Cave,…